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No. Bad things never happen in Europe. Ever. Everything is perfect over there. The "thief" was actually putting cash, free healthcare and multiple employment opportunities in his pocket. We are American, we wouldn't understand
They can't give us something they don't have. That's the joke. It's easier to find Jesus than it is to find even a mediocre job in Europe. People have no discretionary spending income. And the healthcare thing, it is managed by state in the US, with some of them having mixed private/public universal access, like New York. I'm also a Spanish citizen. Even our integration of immigrants is stellar compared to Europe. How many political stabbings in Europe last week: 3. In the US: Zero.
This is just American ignorance. They were just trying to steal your passport so you could not return to the evil, somehow full of idiots but also controls every single detail around the world simultaneously, capitalistic dystopia you are from. They were trying to free you from those evil manipulation devices such as iPhones and Google. You wouldn't understand because only the government knows what is best for us 😡. And what about Iraq? Free Palestine free Congo free pizza 😡 Free Russia Free South Korea
My dad kept his passport and wallet on a “belt” that wrapped around him under his clothes when we went to Europe. I wish we could have a Siesta time in the US.
I started eating a "healthy" lunch and find it helps with the afternoon sleepyness, basically a couple of raw vegetables (tomato, cucumber) sweet potato and a few chunks of that fake crab. The only thing cooked is the sweet potato. Yes it's far less tasty that a cheeseburger and fries but I find the less fat content doesn't suck all my energy for digestion. Now that being said and since it's Sunday and I'm off today I am going to go have a huge cheeseburger with chili fries and then go take a big ol' stinky nap.
The best way to avoid pickpocket is to not keep things in your pants pocket.
And your jacket pockets should have zip or inside pockets.
I also used the belt before to keep the bigger amount of cash. Later you mostly use creditcards so I don't use it anymore.
That is something my Texan brain can't comprehend.
If I go more than 36 hours without a shower, even if I spent all of it sitting at home in the AC, I feel grimy like I'm wearing a second skin.
I can't imagine the amount of hate this content creator received. It is funny though 🤣🤣
I've been going to Europe since 2003 (22 countries total) and I've never gotten pick pocketed. I am originally from the DR and we are used to keep our belonging close and to always be alert.
A friend of mine told me that she almost got pick pocketed one day and then she was pick pocketed the next day! I've never seen them in action though but one lady was trying to do the gold ring scam to me. I just told her that the ring was not mine and kept going.
We were walking through a crowd in France, and my husband caught a little hand trying to pickpocket him. He grabbed it and started yelling “pickpocket!!” while pointing at her as she scurried away through the crowd. It got everyone on alert for their things.
If you do not know what country people refer to as the DR, just say so, a simple search on the internet can clue you in. I don't claim to have an English major, as a matter of fact English is not even my second language. I think most people who have read my comment understood what I meant and where I am from originally.
It Is funny, but you know how the Euros get offended with these kind of videos. So I am going to guess that the content creator is probably getting a lot of hate.
I'm from Portugal (where this video is recorded) I laughed at it, and the dude is obviously making fun of both, I laughed really hard at the "standard portion of european food", that's a pastel de nata which trust me has enough calories.
I looked at the comments hoping to see more fun comments but good lord people in this subreddit are miserable.
You are probably one of the few. I don't have tik tok but if this is anything like IG, I am pretty sure that this video would be full of hateful comments from Europeans who can't take a joke. I commend you for saying that you found it funny but the reality is that it is not the case for most Europeans online. If you think this sub is depressing, you should look at the anti american subs on reddit.
I've been to Portugal before, the pastels de nata are good! I do also like the
Pasteis de bacalhau. In my birth country we have something similar called "bacalaito".
I don't know what image you have of Europeans, but we can still take jokes. The german sense of humor hasn't reached this far down.
We don't hate america bud, we just like to make fun of the school shootings and 9/11
Actually, not really. We, the portuguese, found it very funny. We actually know it's satire. I even watch Content Machine on youtube and on TikTok, so i'm fairly familiar with their satire.
Well taking into account i literally live 40 mins away from where they shot the skit (in lisbon), and most people, if not all the people that live in portugal, just like me and are portuguese, once again, JUST LIKE ME, they would also agree with me when i say: it doesn't matter if other people from OTHER COUNTRIES in europe don't find it funny, because we, the people from the country that was the butt of the joke, find it funny. IT'S HILARIOUS.
You do realize that the content creator said "Europe" not "Portugal" right? So even though the skit was filmed in your country, he is generalizing/ exaggerating the experience in most of the larger cities in Europe. Most people have not traveled to your country so they would not be able to recognize places. They see this as a general representation of what an European city looks like.
Honestly, Lisbon is safer than Barcelona, London, Paris and Rome as far as pick pockets are concerned. The only bad experience I had was a taxi scam from the airport, I was tired so didn't check the meter before paying. Anyway, if you found it funny, great! But it is not the case of other people in your continent.
Centuries of European culture and history that has evolved into complete pompousness, but reality is Europe is no longer consider the cradle of anything. A place to go look at old dead things and a subjugated populous that are entirely too dependent on government to take care of them.
Mfw when I make over **twice as much** as the average europoor. Not even trying hard. I didn’t go to college either lmfao
Edit: u/656666_ blocked me after replying. I personally support universal healthcare, but I’m also young and healthy. I don’t need lots of care currently. This also has nothing to do with. Myself making over twice as much as your average European does. Like at all. We spend marginally more on our military, and healthcare already as it is silly goose
no true true and I thought it was hilarious too just thought that if it was getting posted in this sub with no funny tag (I didn’t see one) then the person posting it must be SO BLOCKHEADED that they didn’t realize the American was joking
I love this kind of humor lmao.
Only thing to say is if you get pickpocketed in Europe it’s your own damn fault. They are pickpockets not telekinetic ninjas, yall need to keep your hands in your damn pockets and be self aware oml 😂
I felt more nervous in NYC than I did in any European city, maybe it’s just travel bias but still never been pickpocketed cuz I keep my hands in my own pockets. If someone’s tryna take my phone we’re gonna have to hold hands first 😂
i also love how the tourists can't be more obvious about being tourists and then are surprised to be the target. I'd say carrying an American flag is the only thing that could be used to grab more attention
why do they insist in carrying an enormous backpack in their chest and hug it instead of taking it in their back like a normal person? it's not like students (who also carry backpacks) are being pickpocket during the day. just blend in with the population instead of being paranoid lol
I am European (Portuguese) and even I was almost pickpocket twice, once in Portugal a guy tried to pickpocket me but I turned around just in time. Then he tried to sell me a phone box with a soap. The second time I was in Frankfurt if I am not wrong in the Macdonald's near KonstablerWach and a kid almost pickpocketed me, I was leaving the place but two motorbikers were blocking the entrance, I tried to tell them to move out but they didn't so I turned around to get another entrance when I saw this kid almost reaching for my pocket, when she saw me she quickly escaped through the crowd (the place was packed)...
As an European, particularly Portuguese (this was filmed in Lisbon) I laughed. Only the siesta part made me shake my head, we are not Spanish!! Oh, and as I was watching this, I pickpocketed a couple Americans so I could afford rent. Keep coming, guys. We love you!
In America is very common for restaurants to stay open from lunch all the way to dinner, so that's the meme. The worst that can happen when you are walking through a new city is finding out every restaurant is closed.
i think it might be because of a couple things that are just cultural differences. we don't have a need to keep restaurants kept open during the afternoon because 1-we tend to eat dinner much later. from my understanding, americans tend to eat dinner late in the afternoon, around 6pm. that might be a thing in northern europe, but in southern europe, we eat dinner after 8pm. dinner at 7pm is already considered an early dinner. 2-there is no need for a restaurant in the afternoon for eating. we have cafés every 5 steps we walk. you wanna grab something to eat while you're out and about, you just walk into one of the hundreds of cafés in just one street and eat something
Because we are all clouded by our biases. So this skit can be taken as making fun of Americans if you are European or making fun of Europe if you are American. The reality is that he is taking a jab a both. It is very funny though regardless of what we feel.
I live for 40 years in the area this video was filmed.
1) No school shootings;
2) Americans tend to be excellent tourists, same as Canadians, really nice and respectful people. Germans are the worse, entitled as f\*ck and always looking not to pay or bend the rules their way. Brits go a bit crazy with the drink but nice too.
Was gonna make this exact comment. Your wallet could fall out of your pocket and before it’s even hit the ground a 2 months old baby (Romanian in training) has already taken 90% of the money out of it, pictures of all your cards and tapped you on the shoulder to return it while asking for a reward
<< Belka did nothing wrong. Did you graduate from the Osea Air Force academy before five, go on 100s of missions within a year, and so on? Bold talk from an Osean>>
Europeans will say Americans are always in a hurry and should just sit and relax like them. I respond that we're on vacation and only have a limited amount of time to explore so I don't want to spend 2 hours on breakfast.
They live a much more leisurely lifestyle than we do. It’s not our fault that we don’t drop everything we’re doing during the middle of the day for hours to take a break
Europeans say we need to be leisurely like they are… The same Europeans whose family is the majority share holder for the company we work for who call us a pussy ass bitch in whatever Germanic/romace/slavic language they speak when we’re trying to take family leave for an emergency, then they relent and give you a week off and replace you while you’re gone. Then bitch about how you want to work all the time bc you’re just interested in a quick buck.
Europeans in particular are quite horrible people.
I've been to Lisbon and other parts of Portugal as well, portions were decent size but not huge like it Vienna. Tbh I've only seen minuscule portions in Europe on high end restaurants only. Most of the time they are decent size, especially on touristy areas.
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nah it'd be pouring rain if it was winter. i remember, i think it was 2 years ago, it rained so much during the winter that cars parked in the streets of lisbon were covered in water up to the side view mirrors. this was filmed in the summer. this tik tok showed up on my fyp this weekend, so it was possibly filmed and posted recently
Last time I went to europe my wife bought this re-enforced bandolier thing that she wore across her chest to make sure she never got pickpocketed, and I just wore jeans. I never got pickpocketed, but I did have to keep picking up that bandolier thing every time she tried to leave it places.
My kids wanted to go to McDonalds and KFC (saw a surprising number of KFCs) but I think it was mostly for irony purposes, as we don't actually go to those in the states.
For me its the 'everything closes at 3pm' bit that gets me. Trying to explore around Sicily and if you got to a location after three you could forget about checking around inside
Not where this was recorded. In Lisbon most stores and services close at 20h but you can still shop after that and up to very late. It’s 18h40 and I’m planning to go shop groceries in about 20m (it’s a 7m walk)
Yeah i agree, but that is not a Portuguese thing lol. We often joke about that when we travel to spain or italy, everything closes so early. In Portugal shops and restaurants are open until late.
The only innacurate thing was that blasphemy against our lord and saviour, Pastel de Nata. Couldn't even feel bad that he got pickpocketed 2 more times than usual
I watched this short and laughed pretty hard. Fortunately its not true, Portugal is one of the safest countries you can visit.
In fact its ranked the 7th safest country in the world and way safer than the USA:
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/safest-countries-in-the-world
This is not the only safety ranking, however its one of the most established. That being said, Portugal is well ranked in all of the avilable safety rankins, and always much better ranked than the USA.
Safe and happy travels everyone!
I'm an American of Galician origin. I used to cross into Portugal every chance I got. I think you are looking at this the wrong way. Oop is making fun of the American tourist, and the country and city remained ambiguous on purpose because it is a skit. Actually, a Portuguese friend from here shared this with me, and they thought it was hilarious. I was actually at the Portugal Day parade yesterday to party with the community and eat some sardines. Please look into Mineola, NY and Newark, NJ, so you can see how the luso community lives here in safety and prosperity. So accepted that many street names have been renamed for them. For example, Main Street in Newark is Portugal Way. Care to explain why so many of your fellow countrymen have to immigrate here? Often illegally? And would you receive us with the same acceptance and enthusiasm that we have shown your people if we had to emigrate to your country? This is why I ditched the European part of my identity and became convinced that Americans are just better people than Europeans.
You're absolutely right
I found it hilarious too! I love content machine :P I just felt like I should explain (although obvious for some people) that our country is quite safe.
I've been to Newark before. I'm not sure about the "illegal" part you mentioned, I think you may be referencing stuff that used to happen some decades ago. 3 friends of mine are there in the USA, one working for google, another for BCG and another for a Vet research center.
I totally agree that the USA is quite accepting of other people.
Furthermore, of course we would accept you, and actually we have been accepting you very well. I know some american couples who came to live in Portugal as well and their very nice people and they love to live here.
Portugal is one of the least xenophobic countries in europe. We also have 10% immigrant population. The USA has 15% :p
Immigrantion can be a very valuable asset for any economy when used and integratred properly.
There are lots of Portuguese, Spaniards, and Italians illegally here. Not one, not two, but entire restaurants and companies staffed by Europeans illegally here, as of 2024. Not my problem, if you are here, you are one of us. But I don't really understand why Europeans say everything is better over there, and then move here en-masse. I used to work as recently as 2015 at a restaurant, and there was this Italian girl from Milan no less, who spoke of the utopia of Europe, and she was illegally here 🤷🏻♂️. How come there aren't scores of illegal Americans in Europe? How come my Spaniard cousin has a high-end banking job in Lisboa, and I just have a mid-range job in NY, but my disposable income and quality of life is just so much higher? Sometimes, I omit mentioning what I own and what I do for fun so as not to make friends and family in Europe feel bad.
Oh sorry, forgot to answer that, which was actually very important:
Not everything is roses over here at all, specially for the below-average Portuguese, just as not eveything is roses for the below-average american.
That being said, the United States has the largest economy in the world, with some of the greatest companies and a very dynamic job market, which makes it very entacing for any person in the world, ofc!
In most european countries you are a bit more limited in what you can do or earn, due to alot of stuff, including tax policies and the fact that the largest companies in the world are in the USA.
Full disclosure: In Portugal, 0.1% of our population is from the USA, and in the USA 0.4% of your population is from portugal. I think Portuguese people go looking for job opportunities and american people come looking for great quality of life at an affordable cost.
Just a side note: disposable income doesn't necessarily equate to better quality of life. But that being said you can certainly make bank in the USA with the right skill.
>Care to explain why so many of your fellow countrymen have to immigrate here?
minimum wage in portugal is 5€/hour. 67% of the population makes less than 1000€ a month (6€/hour)
> became convinced that Americans are just better people than Europeans
I haven't met that many, and the ones I've met do seem nicer in general, but they're fking weird man. They feel very artificial, like they're always putting up a front, and you can never tell what they're actually thinking, because they're too polite to be real with you.
Americans are not real people. Too polite, fake forced smiles, they creep me out
You've just been indoctrinated to hate us and to believe that your misery is the pinnacle of history, and you get upset when everyone else fails to see it that way. But your people live here in large numbers and they seem fine and happy. Just chilled with them yesterday for Portugal Day 🤷🏻♂️
>You've just been indoctrinated to hate us
Not really, that's not the stereotype you hear about regarding americans. This is just my observation from the ones I interact with
And I don't hate americans, I just find them unsettling. I do dislike america tho. Apart from the economy (which is a strong factor I'll admit), everything else is better here
I worked and studied many years in Lisbon. Using metro and trains and never had been pickpocket, maybe is because I'm not from USA 🤭... Of course the problem exists, but I don't think is very different from other tourist cities.
Funny but McDonalds is probably the worst food in all of America and he's a creep for taking picks of girls on the beach haha. Didn't exactly make Americans look good there lol.
Right, I don't know if my American self-centeredness (is this even a word? 🤣) kicked in, but I took it as making fun of American tourists. Bro even had to take a nap because of the heat and got pick pocketed by a girl flirting with him 😭
Bro, go get evaluated for autism. He is making fun of himself. He added that part so he could complain about the "heat". The location of the skit is also vague, it's not necessarily meant to be a specific place but rather a generic "European vacation". Why are you all so pathetic and bitter? Get help 😅
As someone who was born and raised and still lives in Lisbon, the video is funny, but nothing special, could have found other, more authentic Portuguese and Lisbon realities.
And yes, I understand that its also making fun of the American tourist.
Pickpocket exists like any major city in the world, tourists are obviously vulnerable. In 40 years no one tried to rob me, ever. 6 or 7 years ago my family got their car window broken that was parked next to a football stadium during the game. And that was all in 40 years of life.
I travel a lot (yes we also have disposable income lol, we can travel) and Lisbon is so much safer compared to other European cities.
The service in a restaurant is what it is, you can have the better and the worse, like anywhere in the world. But if there is something that identifies the Portuguese, it is the way we know how to welcome people.
The nap part is a complete fail. We Portuguese ourselves often joke about the fact that when we go to visit Spain, everything is closed because they are taking their "siesta". And at night everything closes early, unlike Portugal.
We are not Spain :), another beautiful country btw
Bro, he never said Portugal in the video. It's a generic "Euro vacation" skit, it just has to be filmed somewhere. Aren't you all the pinnacle of human kind? Why then it seems that all of you are incapable of multidimensional thinking?
Yes, never said it, but makes a video with no "generic" images of europe, its CLEARLY filmed in LISBON lol, he even eats a pastel de nata lol, the connection is made.
If there is one thing that Europe is not, it is being the same, similar or close to it, the countries that border each other in some cases are very different.
Talking about the service while filming in Lisbon is stretching it too much imho.
If it was supposed to be an EUROPE sketch mentioning something like a "siesta" which is only done probably in 1 country in Europe...doesn't makes sense, because to make the joke, the joke has to have some truth in it, no?
It's like talking about a tradition that exists in an American state and making fun of it as if it was something that applies to the entire USA.
>It's like talking about a tradition that exists in an American state and making fun of it as if it was something that applies to the entire USA.
At some point, you all will have to face the fact that you are not as important and relevant as you expect to be. Bro, we do this all the time. Just yesterday my wife, and friends, we all decided to act like "Californian" tourists here in NYC and started acting foolish for a bit. Just for fun, and we are in our 30s. When I lived in China, one time I wore a cowboy hat and boots for a Chinese New Year company skit, and I'm not even from Texas, or white. People all over the world are like this, we like to enjoy life. The only perennially pretentious and depressed people are ya'll Europeans. Disgusting.
Depressed people?
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/depression-rates-by-country
You are still on the podium of the chart.
An american calling "europeans" pretentious is nice, i have read it all on reddit now. Please
Actually i don't know how a californian tourist should suppose to act sorry, probably as much as you don't know how europeans actually are and how different every country is.
Yes you are crazy bro, yesterday pretending to be a californian in NYC, that is what living is about. "we" europeans should learn how to live the life.
I will start saving now, because i don't have disposable income (lol) and will buy that cowboy hat.
Portugal doesn't have a siesta time (sadly). Only Spain. The rest is perfectly accurate. I've been living here for 34 years and everyday I'm pickpocketed. Now I just hang around with a hole in my pocket. Every time someone tries to pickpocket me, the pat my balls
Haha! The pickpocket in Italy is so true. Greek stepmom leaving Athens for work visit to Rome friends and family tell her to not leave hotel cuz she’ll immediately get robbed.
An hotel in Portugal with no AC? He just went for the cheapest low level hotel he could find in booking...
And even for the cheapest garbage is unexpected to not have an AC.
Stores closed at 3 pm in Lisbon? Nope... Not even on a sunday.
This is in Lisbon. I've never met any expats or foreigners who got mugged here, but that was some years back. With the lax immigation policies, Portugal (and others in the EU) has seen crime rates go up in recent years.
As an European that has traveled all around the continent and was never pickpockted, I don't know if this says more about the lack of awareness of American tourists or about European cities.
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I think he got pickpocketed
No. Bad things never happen in Europe. Ever. Everything is perfect over there. The "thief" was actually putting cash, free healthcare and multiple employment opportunities in his pocket. We are American, we wouldn't understand
Silly European, thinking a rich American needs any of those things.
They can't give us something they don't have. That's the joke. It's easier to find Jesus than it is to find even a mediocre job in Europe. People have no discretionary spending income. And the healthcare thing, it is managed by state in the US, with some of them having mixed private/public universal access, like New York. I'm also a Spanish citizen. Even our integration of immigrants is stellar compared to Europe. How many political stabbings in Europe last week: 3. In the US: Zero.
Tu no eres estadouniDENSE! 😂😂😂😂
Lmao what a bootlicker
You’re right, the pickpocketter is American though, mostly 🇻🇪🇨🇴🇪🇨. The joke is on you. It is what it is🤦♀️
In Portugal? Oh boy he took the full amount of pickpockets of the next entire decade...
I went to Spain for a month when i was like 8 and a paper copy of my passport I kept in my pocket got stolen from me within 3 days.
This is just American ignorance. They were just trying to steal your passport so you could not return to the evil, somehow full of idiots but also controls every single detail around the world simultaneously, capitalistic dystopia you are from. They were trying to free you from those evil manipulation devices such as iPhones and Google. You wouldn't understand because only the government knows what is best for us 😡. And what about Iraq? Free Palestine free Congo free pizza 😡 Free Russia Free South Korea
My dad kept his passport and wallet on a “belt” that wrapped around him under his clothes when we went to Europe. I wish we could have a Siesta time in the US.
I won’t front, I AM extremely jealous of siestas. That would be so clutch.
It’s an ancient tradition to rest during the heat of the day. I say we bring it back
I’m not even about it for the heat, I just get tired in the early afternoon 😂
I started eating a "healthy" lunch and find it helps with the afternoon sleepyness, basically a couple of raw vegetables (tomato, cucumber) sweet potato and a few chunks of that fake crab. The only thing cooked is the sweet potato. Yes it's far less tasty that a cheeseburger and fries but I find the less fat content doesn't suck all my energy for digestion. Now that being said and since it's Sunday and I'm off today I am going to go have a huge cheeseburger with chili fries and then go take a big ol' stinky nap.
We’ll all you got to do is have a bunch of old ass buildings with no HVAC, and it will come back otherwise people start dropping from heatstrokes.
The Siesta is only in spain not Portugal. We work all day 😁
Your are a good boy 👍
Not me. I can't get motivated if I sleep during my productive hours..
Siestas are a Spanish thing you dont have those on Portugal
I’m not in Portugal, I just speak Spanish and always called it that.
The portuguese word is "sesta". He meant that don't do that on work days, it's a spanish tradition
I’m American and have been judged for not eating during lunch and instead using that time to sleep.
The best way to avoid pickpocket is to not keep things in your pants pocket. And your jacket pockets should have zip or inside pockets. I also used the belt before to keep the bigger amount of cash. Later you mostly use creditcards so I don't use it anymore.
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>Do they only shower once a day here? lol, try twice a week.
But since they use bidets they don't have to wash the rest of their bodies that often. /s
Mfw americants don't spray ice cold water up their butt.
That is something my Texan brain can't comprehend. If I go more than 36 hours without a shower, even if I spent all of it sitting at home in the AC, I feel grimy like I'm wearing a second skin.
Yep. Impossible for me to sleep if I don't shower in the evening.
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The scent of diesel in South of France is real. Everyone outside is just inhaling fumes. It can’t be healthy.
I can't imagine the amount of hate this content creator received. It is funny though 🤣🤣 I've been going to Europe since 2003 (22 countries total) and I've never gotten pick pocketed. I am originally from the DR and we are used to keep our belonging close and to always be alert.
I haven't been pickpocketed on any of my trips but I \*have\* seen pickpocketing. Those mfs are fast
A friend of mine told me that she almost got pick pocketed one day and then she was pick pocketed the next day! I've never seen them in action though but one lady was trying to do the gold ring scam to me. I just told her that the ring was not mine and kept going.
We were walking through a crowd in France, and my husband caught a little hand trying to pickpocket him. He grabbed it and started yelling “pickpocket!!” while pointing at her as she scurried away through the crowd. It got everyone on alert for their things.
Lol I would totally do this if I see one.
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Oh really? I thought most people were born in their homes and had a midwife deliver them.
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If you do not know what country people refer to as the DR, just say so, a simple search on the internet can clue you in. I don't claim to have an English major, as a matter of fact English is not even my second language. I think most people who have read my comment understood what I meant and where I am from originally.
I mean, I thought it was funny
It Is funny, but you know how the Euros get offended with these kind of videos. So I am going to guess that the content creator is probably getting a lot of hate.
I'm from Portugal (where this video is recorded) I laughed at it, and the dude is obviously making fun of both, I laughed really hard at the "standard portion of european food", that's a pastel de nata which trust me has enough calories. I looked at the comments hoping to see more fun comments but good lord people in this subreddit are miserable.
You are probably one of the few. I don't have tik tok but if this is anything like IG, I am pretty sure that this video would be full of hateful comments from Europeans who can't take a joke. I commend you for saying that you found it funny but the reality is that it is not the case for most Europeans online. If you think this sub is depressing, you should look at the anti american subs on reddit. I've been to Portugal before, the pastels de nata are good! I do also like the Pasteis de bacalhau. In my birth country we have something similar called "bacalaito".
I don't know what image you have of Europeans, but we can still take jokes. The german sense of humor hasn't reached this far down. We don't hate america bud, we just like to make fun of the school shootings and 9/11
Actually, not really. We, the portuguese, found it very funny. We actually know it's satire. I even watch Content Machine on youtube and on TikTok, so i'm fairly familiar with their satire.
YOU may have found it funny but check the Instagram comments from your fellow European neighbors.
Well taking into account i literally live 40 mins away from where they shot the skit (in lisbon), and most people, if not all the people that live in portugal, just like me and are portuguese, once again, JUST LIKE ME, they would also agree with me when i say: it doesn't matter if other people from OTHER COUNTRIES in europe don't find it funny, because we, the people from the country that was the butt of the joke, find it funny. IT'S HILARIOUS.
You do realize that the content creator said "Europe" not "Portugal" right? So even though the skit was filmed in your country, he is generalizing/ exaggerating the experience in most of the larger cities in Europe. Most people have not traveled to your country so they would not be able to recognize places. They see this as a general representation of what an European city looks like. Honestly, Lisbon is safer than Barcelona, London, Paris and Rome as far as pick pockets are concerned. The only bad experience I had was a taxi scam from the airport, I was tired so didn't check the meter before paying. Anyway, if you found it funny, great! But it is not the case of other people in your continent.
Centuries of European culture and history that has evolved into complete pompousness, but reality is Europe is no longer consider the cradle of anything. A place to go look at old dead things and a subjugated populous that are entirely too dependent on government to take care of them.
> Europe is no longer consider the cradle of anything. A place to go look at old dead things Wow. I've never seen it put so succinctly.
Damn, it is sad how true this is. As a lover of European history, it breaks my heart what has become of them.
A-freakin'-men
Don't "truth" them! they're bound to do some....Nah, go for it. They can't do squat.
What about all the cars made from there the art, the food, the engineering, the cork, olives, and many other things
Chill down, we've only fallen behind in the last 15 years. Surely, this is recoverable. Also, wtf do you mean by "subjugated"??? Not having guns?
Typical american cope...
says the dude from Pennsylvania. lmao
Mfw when I make over **twice as much** as the average europoor. Not even trying hard. I didn’t go to college either lmfao Edit: u/656666_ blocked me after replying. I personally support universal healthcare, but I’m also young and healthy. I don’t need lots of care currently. This also has nothing to do with. Myself making over twice as much as your average European does. Like at all. We spend marginally more on our military, and healthcare already as it is silly goose
Sir. Your success does not match my virtue signaling. Who am I going to save now? Please stop
YOU KNOW WHAT WE HAVE? TRAINS! THEY'RE COOL, THEY'RE FAST, THEY'RE ELEGANT, THEY GO CHOO CHOO AND I CAN'T HOLD IT IN, SUCK IT AMERITARD /s
this is obviously a joke 😭😭😭😭
Well it does have a funny tag on it so yeah
shit mb did not see that 😭😭😭 I guess instinctually cos it’s not americabad per se I thought it was a lost post
This is poking fun both at the stereotypical American tourist as well as the stereotypical European tourism experience. I thought it was funny.
no true true and I thought it was hilarious too just thought that if it was getting posted in this sub with no funny tag (I didn’t see one) then the person posting it must be SO BLOCKHEADED that they didn’t realize the American was joking
Swear?
I love this kind of humor lmao. Only thing to say is if you get pickpocketed in Europe it’s your own damn fault. They are pickpockets not telekinetic ninjas, yall need to keep your hands in your damn pockets and be self aware oml 😂
I’ve known plenty of people pickpocketed in American cities. You have to be careful in any city, especially as a tourist.
I felt more nervous in NYC than I did in any European city, maybe it’s just travel bias but still never been pickpocketed cuz I keep my hands in my own pockets. If someone’s tryna take my phone we’re gonna have to hold hands first 😂
For real. I go to large music festivals in the US and they have organized TEAMS of thieves. They target phones so they can sell the parts overseas.
i also love how the tourists can't be more obvious about being tourists and then are surprised to be the target. I'd say carrying an American flag is the only thing that could be used to grab more attention why do they insist in carrying an enormous backpack in their chest and hug it instead of taking it in their back like a normal person? it's not like students (who also carry backpacks) are being pickpocket during the day. just blend in with the population instead of being paranoid lol
I am European (Portuguese) and even I was almost pickpocket twice, once in Portugal a guy tried to pickpocket me but I turned around just in time. Then he tried to sell me a phone box with a soap. The second time I was in Frankfurt if I am not wrong in the Macdonald's near KonstablerWach and a kid almost pickpocketed me, I was leaving the place but two motorbikers were blocking the entrance, I tried to tell them to move out but they didn't so I turned around to get another entrance when I saw this kid almost reaching for my pocket, when she saw me she quickly escaped through the crowd (the place was packed)...
As an European, particularly Portuguese (this was filmed in Lisbon) I laughed. Only the siesta part made me shake my head, we are not Spanish!! Oh, and as I was watching this, I pickpocketed a couple Americans so I could afford rent. Keep coming, guys. We love you!
Ya their is no nap Time but often instead you just lay down and don’t do shit for a while
My dude I work like 3 hours a day.
3 hours of work is only possible with a 2h nap in the middle. Source: Portuguese.
Thats my Finals goal to is just to work little drink a lot and eat a lot
No nap times but every restaurant is closed after 14:30 or 15h, so I think that's the origin of the joke.
Ok, but what are restaurants supposed to be doing after 15h? Usually restaurants are for lunch and dinner.
In America is very common for restaurants to stay open from lunch all the way to dinner, so that's the meme. The worst that can happen when you are walking through a new city is finding out every restaurant is closed.
i think it might be because of a couple things that are just cultural differences. we don't have a need to keep restaurants kept open during the afternoon because 1-we tend to eat dinner much later. from my understanding, americans tend to eat dinner late in the afternoon, around 6pm. that might be a thing in northern europe, but in southern europe, we eat dinner after 8pm. dinner at 7pm is already considered an early dinner. 2-there is no need for a restaurant in the afternoon for eating. we have cafés every 5 steps we walk. you wanna grab something to eat while you're out and about, you just walk into one of the hundreds of cafés in just one street and eat something
How can you be morbidly obese with restaurants closed?
Oh man...don't let the Europeans see this. Their land is a place of perfection, where the downfall of America lives rent free in their heads.
Europeans can take a joke
It's funny, I feel like he's making a joke at you guys, that unironically think Europe is like this
He is making fun of both sides.
Fair, i got that, but alot of these commenters didn't get it
Because we are all clouded by our biases. So this skit can be taken as making fun of Americans if you are European or making fun of Europe if you are American. The reality is that he is taking a jab a both. It is very funny though regardless of what we feel.
Jokes on you. I’m European and a pickpocket.
I live for 40 years in the area this video was filmed. 1) No school shootings; 2) Americans tend to be excellent tourists, same as Canadians, really nice and respectful people. Germans are the worse, entitled as f\*ck and always looking not to pay or bend the rules their way. Brits go a bit crazy with the drink but nice too.
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Average trip to Romania
Paris steals everything. Their art. Italian. Their buildings. German. Their bread. Austrian. Their culture. Romanian.
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The croissants are from Vienna as well
Was gonna make this exact comment. Your wallet could fall out of your pocket and before it’s even hit the ground a 2 months old baby (Romanian in training) has already taken 90% of the money out of it, pictures of all your cards and tapped you on the shoulder to return it while asking for a reward
I know you Belkans 🤨. I fought against you all with solo wing pixy on my PS2 and defeated you before I was even 18 😅
<< Belka did nothing wrong. Did you graduate from the Osea Air Force academy before five, go on 100s of missions within a year, and so on? Bold talk from an Osean>>
This is amazing. Its true that food service in Europe is terrible though and the portions are tiny
Europeans will say Americans are always in a hurry and should just sit and relax like them. I respond that we're on vacation and only have a limited amount of time to explore so I don't want to spend 2 hours on breakfast.
They live a much more leisurely lifestyle than we do. It’s not our fault that we don’t drop everything we’re doing during the middle of the day for hours to take a break
Europeans say we need to be leisurely like they are… The same Europeans whose family is the majority share holder for the company we work for who call us a pussy ass bitch in whatever Germanic/romace/slavic language they speak when we’re trying to take family leave for an emergency, then they relent and give you a week off and replace you while you’re gone. Then bitch about how you want to work all the time bc you’re just interested in a quick buck. Europeans in particular are quite horrible people.
this guy really calling 741 million people horrible lol
Typical Europe: No one works but family leave is not allowed s/
>the portions are tiny You have been going into the wrong restaurants
I know right! I was recently in Vienna and the portions were big.
I was recently in Berlin and most of the time the portions were big enough that I felt sick if I finished my food lol
This was recorded in Lisbon. Can’t speak about the places where tourists go but most restaurants in Lisbon serve good portions.
I've been to Lisbon and other parts of Portugal as well, portions were decent size but not huge like it Vienna. Tbh I've only seen minuscule portions in Europe on high end restaurants only. Most of the time they are decent size, especially on touristy areas.
Not where this was recorded. Source: my lunch today
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Being against siesta but falling asleep at 3:30 due to the heat was a solid joke
And it was probably winter in Lisbon too. Solid 75F probably 🤣
But we don't do siesta in Portugal... That's in Spain lol
nah it'd be pouring rain if it was winter. i remember, i think it was 2 years ago, it rained so much during the winter that cars parked in the streets of lisbon were covered in water up to the side view mirrors. this was filmed in the summer. this tik tok showed up on my fyp this weekend, so it was possibly filmed and posted recently
Im Portuguese and it’s a bit the opposite: hard to sleep on these warm days.
I often get fatigued from the sun and heat, to the point it can be very nice to take a hot nap, though at night I would require it to be cold
Last time I went to europe my wife bought this re-enforced bandolier thing that she wore across her chest to make sure she never got pickpocketed, and I just wore jeans. I never got pickpocketed, but I did have to keep picking up that bandolier thing every time she tried to leave it places. My kids wanted to go to McDonalds and KFC (saw a surprising number of KFCs) but I think it was mostly for irony purposes, as we don't actually go to those in the states.
For me its the 'everything closes at 3pm' bit that gets me. Trying to explore around Sicily and if you got to a location after three you could forget about checking around inside
And whatever you do, DO NOT ORDER A CAPPUCCINO after 9AM or all hell will break loose. Do not do it 🤣
Bs. You can order a cappuccino at any time. Europe is not the same as Italy or whatever.
Not where this was recorded. In Lisbon most stores and services close at 20h but you can still shop after that and up to very late. It’s 18h40 and I’m planning to go shop groceries in about 20m (it’s a 7m walk)
Yeah i agree, but that is not a Portuguese thing lol. We often joke about that when we travel to spain or italy, everything closes so early. In Portugal shops and restaurants are open until late.
The only innacurate thing was that blasphemy against our lord and saviour, Pastel de Nata. Couldn't even feel bad that he got pickpocketed 2 more times than usual
Damn Portugal 💪
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The most fun part of this video is the guy eating in McDonald’s and this is so true.
“The heat is getting to me.” Yeah. A sweltering 76.
These guys are Americans lol
Where’s the satire?
This is actually pretty funny.
That's more than just slightly exaggerated, but I doubt that saying it has any point on this sub.
Are fanny packs pick pocket proof?
Correction - Lisbon
I watched this short and laughed pretty hard. Fortunately its not true, Portugal is one of the safest countries you can visit. In fact its ranked the 7th safest country in the world and way safer than the USA: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/safest-countries-in-the-world This is not the only safety ranking, however its one of the most established. That being said, Portugal is well ranked in all of the avilable safety rankins, and always much better ranked than the USA. Safe and happy travels everyone!
I'm an American of Galician origin. I used to cross into Portugal every chance I got. I think you are looking at this the wrong way. Oop is making fun of the American tourist, and the country and city remained ambiguous on purpose because it is a skit. Actually, a Portuguese friend from here shared this with me, and they thought it was hilarious. I was actually at the Portugal Day parade yesterday to party with the community and eat some sardines. Please look into Mineola, NY and Newark, NJ, so you can see how the luso community lives here in safety and prosperity. So accepted that many street names have been renamed for them. For example, Main Street in Newark is Portugal Way. Care to explain why so many of your fellow countrymen have to immigrate here? Often illegally? And would you receive us with the same acceptance and enthusiasm that we have shown your people if we had to emigrate to your country? This is why I ditched the European part of my identity and became convinced that Americans are just better people than Europeans.
You're absolutely right I found it hilarious too! I love content machine :P I just felt like I should explain (although obvious for some people) that our country is quite safe. I've been to Newark before. I'm not sure about the "illegal" part you mentioned, I think you may be referencing stuff that used to happen some decades ago. 3 friends of mine are there in the USA, one working for google, another for BCG and another for a Vet research center. I totally agree that the USA is quite accepting of other people. Furthermore, of course we would accept you, and actually we have been accepting you very well. I know some american couples who came to live in Portugal as well and their very nice people and they love to live here. Portugal is one of the least xenophobic countries in europe. We also have 10% immigrant population. The USA has 15% :p Immigrantion can be a very valuable asset for any economy when used and integratred properly.
There are lots of Portuguese, Spaniards, and Italians illegally here. Not one, not two, but entire restaurants and companies staffed by Europeans illegally here, as of 2024. Not my problem, if you are here, you are one of us. But I don't really understand why Europeans say everything is better over there, and then move here en-masse. I used to work as recently as 2015 at a restaurant, and there was this Italian girl from Milan no less, who spoke of the utopia of Europe, and she was illegally here 🤷🏻♂️. How come there aren't scores of illegal Americans in Europe? How come my Spaniard cousin has a high-end banking job in Lisboa, and I just have a mid-range job in NY, but my disposable income and quality of life is just so much higher? Sometimes, I omit mentioning what I own and what I do for fun so as not to make friends and family in Europe feel bad.
Oh sorry, forgot to answer that, which was actually very important: Not everything is roses over here at all, specially for the below-average Portuguese, just as not eveything is roses for the below-average american. That being said, the United States has the largest economy in the world, with some of the greatest companies and a very dynamic job market, which makes it very entacing for any person in the world, ofc! In most european countries you are a bit more limited in what you can do or earn, due to alot of stuff, including tax policies and the fact that the largest companies in the world are in the USA. Full disclosure: In Portugal, 0.1% of our population is from the USA, and in the USA 0.4% of your population is from portugal. I think Portuguese people go looking for job opportunities and american people come looking for great quality of life at an affordable cost. Just a side note: disposable income doesn't necessarily equate to better quality of life. But that being said you can certainly make bank in the USA with the right skill.
**but my disposable income and quality of life is just so much higher?** And how do you measure that?
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Also, no need to mention but if you are of Galician origin you are absolutely Nuestro Hermano!
>Care to explain why so many of your fellow countrymen have to immigrate here? minimum wage in portugal is 5€/hour. 67% of the population makes less than 1000€ a month (6€/hour)
> became convinced that Americans are just better people than Europeans I haven't met that many, and the ones I've met do seem nicer in general, but they're fking weird man. They feel very artificial, like they're always putting up a front, and you can never tell what they're actually thinking, because they're too polite to be real with you. Americans are not real people. Too polite, fake forced smiles, they creep me out
You've just been indoctrinated to hate us and to believe that your misery is the pinnacle of history, and you get upset when everyone else fails to see it that way. But your people live here in large numbers and they seem fine and happy. Just chilled with them yesterday for Portugal Day 🤷🏻♂️
>You've just been indoctrinated to hate us Not really, that's not the stereotype you hear about regarding americans. This is just my observation from the ones I interact with And I don't hate americans, I just find them unsettling. I do dislike america tho. Apart from the economy (which is a strong factor I'll admit), everything else is better here
I worked and studied many years in Lisbon. Using metro and trains and never had been pickpocket, maybe is because I'm not from USA 🤭... Of course the problem exists, but I don't think is very different from other tourist cities.
Funny but McDonalds is probably the worst food in all of America and he's a creep for taking picks of girls on the beach haha. Didn't exactly make Americans look good there lol.
Right, I don't know if my American self-centeredness (is this even a word? 🤣) kicked in, but I took it as making fun of American tourists. Bro even had to take a nap because of the heat and got pick pocketed by a girl flirting with him 😭
29 years in Portugal and I have never been pickpocked!
Lisboa, such a beautiful city
That’s just Romainia
Bro that should have been the title! They would have lost their shit. Next time 🤣
Cool. Now do Chicago.
Siesta time in Portugal? Another American idiot...
Bro, go get evaluated for autism. He is making fun of himself. He added that part so he could complain about the "heat". The location of the skit is also vague, it's not necessarily meant to be a specific place but rather a generic "European vacation". Why are you all so pathetic and bitter? Get help 😅
As someone who was born and raised and still lives in Lisbon, the video is funny, but nothing special, could have found other, more authentic Portuguese and Lisbon realities. And yes, I understand that its also making fun of the American tourist. Pickpocket exists like any major city in the world, tourists are obviously vulnerable. In 40 years no one tried to rob me, ever. 6 or 7 years ago my family got their car window broken that was parked next to a football stadium during the game. And that was all in 40 years of life. I travel a lot (yes we also have disposable income lol, we can travel) and Lisbon is so much safer compared to other European cities. The service in a restaurant is what it is, you can have the better and the worse, like anywhere in the world. But if there is something that identifies the Portuguese, it is the way we know how to welcome people. The nap part is a complete fail. We Portuguese ourselves often joke about the fact that when we go to visit Spain, everything is closed because they are taking their "siesta". And at night everything closes early, unlike Portugal. We are not Spain :), another beautiful country btw
Bro, he never said Portugal in the video. It's a generic "Euro vacation" skit, it just has to be filmed somewhere. Aren't you all the pinnacle of human kind? Why then it seems that all of you are incapable of multidimensional thinking?
Yes, never said it, but makes a video with no "generic" images of europe, its CLEARLY filmed in LISBON lol, he even eats a pastel de nata lol, the connection is made. If there is one thing that Europe is not, it is being the same, similar or close to it, the countries that border each other in some cases are very different. Talking about the service while filming in Lisbon is stretching it too much imho. If it was supposed to be an EUROPE sketch mentioning something like a "siesta" which is only done probably in 1 country in Europe...doesn't makes sense, because to make the joke, the joke has to have some truth in it, no? It's like talking about a tradition that exists in an American state and making fun of it as if it was something that applies to the entire USA.
>It's like talking about a tradition that exists in an American state and making fun of it as if it was something that applies to the entire USA. At some point, you all will have to face the fact that you are not as important and relevant as you expect to be. Bro, we do this all the time. Just yesterday my wife, and friends, we all decided to act like "Californian" tourists here in NYC and started acting foolish for a bit. Just for fun, and we are in our 30s. When I lived in China, one time I wore a cowboy hat and boots for a Chinese New Year company skit, and I'm not even from Texas, or white. People all over the world are like this, we like to enjoy life. The only perennially pretentious and depressed people are ya'll Europeans. Disgusting.
Depressed people? https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/depression-rates-by-country You are still on the podium of the chart. An american calling "europeans" pretentious is nice, i have read it all on reddit now. Please Actually i don't know how a californian tourist should suppose to act sorry, probably as much as you don't know how europeans actually are and how different every country is. Yes you are crazy bro, yesterday pretending to be a californian in NYC, that is what living is about. "we" europeans should learn how to live the life. I will start saving now, because i don't have disposable income (lol) and will buy that cowboy hat.
To be fair, Americans are pickpocketed everywhere, NYC, London, Bombay, Hong Kong, you name it.
Portugal doesn't have a siesta time (sadly). Only Spain. The rest is perfectly accurate. I've been living here for 34 years and everyday I'm pickpocketed. Now I just hang around with a hole in my pocket. Every time someone tries to pickpocket me, the pat my balls
Haha! The pickpocket in Italy is so true. Greek stepmom leaving Athens for work visit to Rome friends and family tell her to not leave hotel cuz she’ll immediately get robbed.
An hotel in Portugal with no AC? He just went for the cheapest low level hotel he could find in booking... And even for the cheapest garbage is unexpected to not have an AC. Stores closed at 3 pm in Lisbon? Nope... Not even on a sunday.
At least you didn't get shot. I'm joking too, just in case.
He may have gotten stabbed though. Jk too
Unfortunately in Portugal we do not have siestas 🥲
Lived in europe for 20yrs never got pickpocket, I guess the criminals detect americans
I feel sorry. I think he went to another continent.
This is in Lisbon. I've never met any expats or foreigners who got mugged here, but that was some years back. With the lax immigation policies, Portugal (and others in the EU) has seen crime rates go up in recent years.
Dont funny, even as a joke, Portugal its the best country to see in Europe
He is lucky they didn't pick pocket his phone so he could upload this
that's Portugal for you buddy, it was probably my dog that pickpocketed you
imagine shiting all over Portugal like this when you are from USA.
Bro, that's in Portugal...
oh men you were so stupid... you went to Lisbon instead of Porto...big mistake!!! ahahah
The part about no one being up after lunch is a Spain thing but holy shit as a Portuguese this video is absolutely hilarious
Didn't even get a beer with his McDonald's...
Your American... You are not rich! Even Donald Trump ain't rich eating hamburgers!
You should have been to cova da moura 🤌
As an European that has traveled all around the continent and was never pickpockted, I don't know if this says more about the lack of awareness of American tourists or about European cities.